Activities in SST classroom

Go to class with a smile
Quote – on ssc by Clement Mok. ( is it not rocket science. It’s a social science.


Simulation method.
Simplified version of real world situation.
Topics like – morality, democracy, patriotism, leadership etc…

Historical simulation
Simulation activities
Simulation games

Historical simulation  ( For eg:  Shekha Kapoor)


Dramatizatons in which past incidents are relieved and real characters portrayed.

 Simulation activities

Simulation games

Role play (Spontaneous ) == Differences
Dramatizations (based on script)


Laboratory method

Inquiry / discovery method
Encourage divergent thinking….
Eg- students can be required to find out the reasons for fuel shortage in the country.

Project method

Demonstrations


Helping students with the vast content.
- Pre teach key vocabulary with appropriate definition/ explanations.
- Chunk matter into manageable bits of information.
- Represent relevant information in graphic organizers.
The Fakebook Strategy
Create fake FB page for a person of importance.
Students

Storyboard teaching
“If history were taught in the form of stories …  ( Rudyard Kliping)


Youtube
Why learn social studies ?

PD Session- General Teaching Strategies

Teaching strategies 

Strategy is a form of a plan

strategies and activities are different.

“The right thought effort and action make wonders in the classroom”

1- Cooperative learning.

Small group of students work together on a common task with or without specific role assignments.

Teacher has to decide - Heterogeneous group, Homogeneous group 

Merits

Positive interdependence

Individual and group accountability..

Increase self-esteem of students

* Carousel

https://shelleygrayteaching.com/carousel/

It can be used in any point of time in a class

Sharing of perspective

Steps

• Give a chart paper which contains topic/ questions
• They write down responses
• Then give to other group and they discuss the answers of other groups
• They discuss the topic further and responds.
• Each group writes with a different marker. 
• The last group to work at each chart presents the information on that chart to that chart to the entire class.

SPARQL query to finding wikidata items Which does not have descriptions

#no description
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?itemLabel_ml
WHERE 
{
  ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q11900058 .
  optional {?item rdfs:label ?itemLabel_ml . filter(lang(?itemLabel_ml)="ml")}
  filter not exists {?item schema:description ?itemDesc_ml . filter(lang(?itemDesc_ml)="ml")}
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

by - Tagishsimon (talk)

My SPARQL query to finding wikidata items Which does not have labels

I would like to get SPARQL query for finding wikidata items ( ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q11900058 ) Which does not have labels and descriptions in language(ml/ar). So that I can add labels and descriptions in those languages. --Akbarali (talk) 09:56, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

#no label
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?itemDesc_ml
WHERE 
{
  ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q11900058 .
  filter not exists {?item rdfs:label ?itemLabel_ml . filter(lang(?itemLabel_ml)="ml")}
  optional {?item schema:description ?itemDesc_ml . filter(lang(?itemDesc_ml)="ml")}
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

To try this

Prepared Credit for Tagishsimon 

A lightning talk on Wikipedia at PMSM

A lightning talk was organised by PMSM students who study for journalism . There was a short presentation on wikipedia .Mr.Kamarudhin Elankur welcomed the function.

Wikimedia workshop 2019 - Bukhari College

It is immense pleasure to find out time to organise and lead wikimedia workshops for students and teachers in India. This year we organise a one day workshop at Kondotty Bukhari College .The workshop will be covered major Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes etc. The expecting participants are graduate students at the same college. This event is organized by Wikimedians of Kerala in associations with the Bukhari College Kondotty. 

I have created its event page. It is available here

• Introduction to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
• How to edit in Wikipedia
• Create a new article in Wikipedia
• Introduction to Wikisource
• Add content in Wikisource
• Introduction to Commons
• How to add photographs into commons
• Licenses of Photographs and Articles
• Introduction to Wiktionary, Wikiquote
• Introduction to Wikidata

After the programme.

Important Keywords - Delhi Sultans

There are few keywords listed below. It may help you to teach and learn the history of Delhi Sultans

Wazir	Income, expenditure , collection of revenue
Ariz I mumalik	– employment of soldiers, training and equipment
Wakil-i-dar –	household of sultans, place guards, personal assistance
Amir-i-hajib –	master of ceremonies of the court
Chief qazi –	justice department
Khans	Military positions
Maliks	Military positions
Amir	Military positions
Chehra	Kept description about each soldier
dagh	Branded Each horse
Subas	Sultanate was divided provinces
Muqti	Head of Subas  (governor)
Subas divided in to	Shiqs.
Shiqdar	Head of Shiqs
Shiqs divided in to Parganas	Parganas  (Several villages)
Amil	Head of parganas
Landowners were known as	Khuts & muqaddams
Patwari	Village accountant
Iqta	Assignment of land revenue. land was granted to turkish nobles in lieu of salary.
Iqtadars	The person who collect revenue from Iqta
Kharaj	Land Revenue